Concourse vs Semaphore: What are the differences?
Developers describe Concourse as "Pipeline-based CI system written in Go". Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control. On the other hand, Semaphore is detailed as "The continuous integration and delivery platform powering the world’s best engineering teams". Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.
Concourse and Semaphore can be categorized as "Continuous Integration" tools.
"Real pipelines" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Concourse, while over 19 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Semaphore.
Concourse is an open source tool with 3.99K GitHub stars and 482 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Concourse's open source repository on GitHub.
GrowthHackers, CrowdFlower, and Lost My Name are some of the popular companies that use Semaphore, whereas Concourse is used by DigitalOcean, Starbucks, and HelloFresh. Semaphore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Concourse, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.